Harness plow attachment.



PATBNTEzu-APR. 9, 19.07..

G. E.& J. A.-L1LE.- HARNESS PLOW ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE A2l, 1906` ClAttozneM Q/UihAeLooes t V UNITED STATES PATENT oEEroE.

GEORGE E.r LILEv AND JOSEPH A. LILE, OF CLOVERDALE, CALIFORNIA.

HARNESS PLOW ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application filed June 2l, 1906- Serial No. 322,783.

provide more especially for plowing or culti! vating vineyards, nurseries, and other small bushes and vegetables, also to dispense with the use of the swingletree for plowing or cultivating anything which the same wouldbe liable to catch into or scratch or bruise.

Said invention consists of certain structural features or instrumentalities substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and speciically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of our inven-` tion, Figure 1 is a plan view thereof, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same with a strap attached thereto for balancing it when in practical use.

ln the disclosure of our invention we form of a single piece of suitable metal or steel what may be called, for a better name, a frame, the two arms 1 thereof being curved or branching off laterally from their point of juncture or union with a downward and rearward curved or inclined portion 2. Said rear end depending portion is about half an inch thick and about three inches Wide, and from this part the lateral portions or arms are gradually thinned toward their forward ends, where they are formed into hooks, into the requisite lightness for the purposes of this invention, as will be readily appreciated. Said lateral portions or arms 1 serve practically in the capacity of traces without the attendant limpness thereof or as thills or other usual draft appliances, but standing throughout their lengths in a plane much above that of the latter and reaching forward and effecting connection with the hames, said arms having forward end hook formations or terminals 3 for engagement 5o with the slots in the rear ends of the usual tug-buckles on said hames. (Not shown.) To said arms is suitably attached a strap 4 for passing over the back of the horse just forward of the hips for balancing in position the frame when detached from the plow or cultivator.

The depending rear end portion 2 of the contrivance has a hook-shaped lower end 5 for suitably engaging or attaching it to the forward end of the cultivator or plow beam. (Not shown.) Also loosely suspended in a vertical slot 6 in said depending portion 2 is a link or latch 7, itself having an infolded or lbent low'er end forming practically a slot 8 therein. With the hook 5 of the part 2 engaging the usual draft attaching ring or clevis of the plow or cultivator beam the link or latch 7 is adjusted so as to cause it to fit over the hook-engaged portion of said ring and downward laterally of said hook 5, when if it may not be desired to-depend upon the weight or gravity of the latch for its retention in effective position a wedge or key 9 may be inserted into the unoccupied portion of the slot 6 in the part 2 above said link or latch for that purpose.

It will be noted that in the use of this con"- trivance the usual whiflietree or swingletree is dispensed with, which would be objectionable for the reasons above recited, and that connection may be effected with the plow or cultivae tor beam low down near the surface below the shrubbery, while the arms or lateral members standing in a plane above the shrubbery the latter will not be interfered with thereby in the plowing or cultivating operation, as desired. A

We claim- 1 A device of the character described, hav- 1 IOO with said hook-ended terminal, and arms eX- naines to this specification in the presence of tending or curving laterally outward from two subscribing witnesses. said rear end portion and then forward and GEORGE E. LILE. terminating at their forward ends into hooks JOSEPH A. LILE.

5 for engaging the usual tug hooks or buckles Witnesses:

on the haines. C. T. COFFEY, In testimony whereof we have signed our M. I. DUNN. 

